Prevention of violence against women and girls: A cost-effectiveness study across 6 low- and middle-income countries.
Giulia FerrariSergio Torres-RuedaEsnat D ChirwaAndrew GibbsStacey OrangiEdwine W BarasaTheresa TawiahRebecca Kyerewaa Dwommoh PrahRegis HitimanaEmmanuelle DaviaudEleonah KapapaKristin DunkleLori HeiseErin SternSangeeta ChatterjiBenjamin OmondiDeda Ogum AlangeaRozina KarmalianiHussain Maqbool Ahmed KhuwajaRachel JewkesCharlotte WattsAnna VassallPublished in: PLoS medicine (2022)
We demonstrate that investment in established community-based VAWG prevention interventions can improve population health in LMICs, even within highly constrained health budgets. However, several VAWG prevention interventions require further modification to achieve affordability and cost-effectiveness at scale. Broadening the range of social, health, and economic outcomes captured in future cost-effectiveness assessments remains critical to justifying the investment urgently required to prevent VAWG globally.